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I dont know how you’re productive with VS Code and Go... I watch my coworkers live code with it sometimes and they are struggling. The lang server crashes constantly and stuff like autoimports or code complete barely works. I sometimes want to scream while watching them struggle.

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I've read about those issues, and used to get them occasionally, but haven't really had them in a long time. Maybe my projects aren't large enough to cause any issues?

Been using it daily for +1year and that doesn't sound like my experience at all.

Same pretty much the same for JetBrains stuff. Constant screaming about how to configure their autoformatter compatible to prettifier for specific settings. Not supporting required configs out of the box. And build and IDE often live in completely different worlds. For example, project moodel at gradle and at IDEA is completely different and IDEA one is much more limited. And so on.

Android Studio could hang whole mac while "indexing" and often need to "reset caches and restart" while works just fine in VS Code.

> Constant screaming about how to configure their autoformatter compatible to prettifier for specific setting.

Assuming you mean “prettier” rather than prettifier (which a cursory Google did not show up as being a popular thing), the way to do this is to add a prettier config block to a package.json or a .prettierrc file, and then click “yes” when the IDE asks you “use code format based on prettier config”.

I did this not more than 10 minutes before writing this comment, on whatever the latest (shipping) version of IDEA available with whatever version of prettier came from `npm install` this morning - may save you a few mins next time the IDE is screaming at you.

Be sure they're updating. There's no prompt or anything that I've seen in my environment to do so.

It's still not perfect but my experience doesn't match that.

I think only recently did the gopls become turned on by default for the Go plugin for VS Code. I've been using it for years and have never had any major issues.

The quality is really getting better but it is my experience that you still have to restart the language server (or the integration?) multiple times per hour on any non-trivial project. It is frustrating but it also becomes a habit to quickly reach out to that shortcut in case completion, formatting or intellisense randomly stops working.

It is hard to complain about free tools though. For a Free tool, VSCode, gopls and the Go extensions are great.

If you want more stability, polish and features, pay the $8/month for Goland?

Really? Never had issues personally

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